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centre denticulate line, opposite -| hindmargin ; hindmarginal line 

 black ; cilia creamy- white, with median band and bars of fuscous. 



Brisbane ; in scrub ; rare. 



Pyrausta straminea, sp.nov. 



(J 9. 20-24 mm. Head ochreous-fuscous, face darker fuscous. 

 Palpi fuscous. Antennae creamy-fuscous. Collar dark fuscous. 

 Thorax ochreous-fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-fuscous, whiter 

 anteriorly. Forewings straight, rounded at apex, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded, ochreous-fuscous tinted with light ferruginous 

 on borders, and marked with black dots and fuscous lines ; costal 

 edge dark fuscous, a curved row of 4 black dots from opposite 

 i costa to ^ inner margin, the third and fourth dots faint and 

 indefinite ; a black dot on median vein with a second dot midway 

 between it and costa at ^ ; -a, circular fuscous line with darker 

 dots on veins, from § costa to a black spot opposite | inner 

 margin ; a hindmarginal dark smoky-fuscous line : cilia grey, 

 with a smoky-fuscous median line. Hindwings ochreous-fuscous, 

 more or less suffused with smoky-grey, mostly toward hindmargin ; 

 a conspicuous black discal spot ; a fuscous line of dots between 

 veins nearly parallel with hindmargin from | costa to | inner 

 margin ; hindmarginal line dark smoky-fuscous ; cilia as fore- 

 wings. 



Queensland ; rare. 



Pyrausta violacea, sp.nov, 



(J9. 20 mm. Head fulvous-ochreous. Palpi long, fulvous- 

 ochreous, inclining to fuscous laterally. Thorax sepia-fuscous. 

 Abdomen fulvous-fuscous. Forewings : costa gently rounded, 

 hindmargin, apical half straight, inner half rounded, dark fuscous 

 shaded with purple and iridescent violet, dusted with sepia- 

 fuscous and marked with deep fuscous lines ; a sepia-fuscous line 

 from 1 costa to J inner margin, space between it and base difiused 

 with sepia-fuscous ; a discoidal ring of dark sepia shaded with 

 violet, in some specimens diffused with sepia-fuscous to form a 



